Johnny Bradberry, chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority board and coastal advisor to Gov. John Bel Edwards, announced on Thursday he will leave office Jan. 1 for a job in the private sector. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Chairman Johnny Bradberry , who has overseen Louisiana's coastal restoration and hurricane levee construction since January 2016, is stepping down effective Jan. 1 to pursue an opportunity in the private sector, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Thursday .
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The environmental impacts caused by the construction and operation of a proposed $8.5 billion Venture Global Plaquemines LNG Terminal will be discussed during a public meeting hosted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Belle Chasse on Tuesday Those effects include the facilty's status as a new major emitter of greenhouse gases that help cause global warming, and more than 800 acres of wetlands impacted by construction of the terminal and an associated pipeline, according to the draft environmental Impact statement released in November by FERC. The document also cited a variety of other air and water impacts on area wildlife and on nearby residents.
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A family of French tourists crane their necks to see an alligator along the Coquille Trail in Barataria Preserve, one of the six sites of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Thursday, April 17, 2014. ( Several Louisiana conservation groups are calling on Congress to revive a federal fund that helped create some of the state's most popular parks and wildlife areas.
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It's one of New Orleans' most famous, most beautiful places, one you've probably seen hundreds if not thousands of times -- even if you've never visited the Crescent City. It's Jackson Square, the oft-photographed plot of land at the heart of New Orleans' riverfront.
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Louisiana's oyster fishery is one of the few bright spots in a recent assessment of efforts to restore oyster habitat in the Gulf of Mexico years after the BP oil spill. Along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, oyster harvests have plummeted over the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by The Nature Conservancy.
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Jean Lafitte: He's one of New Orleans' most romantic and revered historical figures, but he's also one of the most mysterious. When it comes down to it, very few verifiable facts about him are known -- other than that he was a pirate who operated out of Barataria Bay.
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This mock-up of an ocean-going ship and a barge docked at a proposed terminal in the Mississippi River was used to model the terminal's effects on sediment flowing into the proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion just downstream. The 2012 study concluded the terminal could reduce sediment captured by the diversion by 17 percent.
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The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans New Orleans, featuring original artwork commissioned by NOLA.com The legacy : Jean Lafitte was a pirate, and so, unsurprisingly, few verifiable facts are known about his life. Pirates are funny that way.
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The Army Corps of Engineers and state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority officials signed two agreements this week that clear the way for the corps to study when and how high east bank and West Bank New Orleans area levees must be raised to keep up with future sea level rise and subsidence. Also signed were two agreements to study what new levees are needed for communities in four central Louisiana parishes and in the Upper Barataria Basin just west of New Orleans.
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More than 1,800 people died in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit southeast Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi. But did you know about the 1893 hurricane that struck near Grand Isle on Oct. 1? The unnamed Category 4 storm made landfall at Cheniere Caminada and killed 2,000, from Louisiana to Alabama.
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Plaquemines Parish President Amos Cormier III, flanked by parish fishers, explains why he opposes the state's proposed Mid-Barataria and Mid-Breton sediment diversions during a June 2018 news conference. During the past 30 days, Cormier has written 16 letters to federal officials, from the Army Corps of Engineers to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, outlining his objections to the diversions.
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The ability of the Mississippi River to build land when it's diverted from its banks will be the focus of a Coastal Connections event jointly sponsored by the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Mississippi River Delta Coalition. The event, to be held in Buras on Sept.
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Like the city of New Orleans, the Town of Jean Lafitte can trace its history back 300 years. The lifeblood of the city is the water: shrimping and fishing are the town's major industries, and the area's lush beauty attracts nature lovers and tourists.
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Louisiana officials have begun creating "adaptation working groups" aimed at addressing potential impacts to producers of oysters , shrimp , finfish and crabs that will be caused by construction of coastal restoration and hurricane protection projects to be built as part of the state's coastal Master Plan , the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority announced Wednesday . "You often hear us say that our coastal landscape is continuously changing," Chip Kline, deputy director of the Governor's office of Coastal Activities, told the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority board.
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Belle Chasse insurance agent Bill Bubrig was appointed to the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority board by Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday . Bubrig was recommended to represent Plaquemines Parish by state Rep. Chris Leopold , R-Belle Chasse, and also had the support of Lt.
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A vine that covered and killed otherwise healthy marsh grass in the Delacroix area more than a decade ago has taken off on Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans. Vigna luteola , commonly known as pea vine or deer pea, turned extensive stands of thriving spartina alternaflora to bare mud flats and eventually open water in the late 1990s and early 2000s near the popular St. Bernard Parish port.
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Tiny white mushrooms grow on a sunken log in the Barataria Preserve in Marrero on Sunday, March 26, 2017. (Photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com Question for Dan Gill: We collect rain water and have been using it on our houseplants.
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